Sabe said:
Videos you showed are far far away in the future, and definitely +1000$, they were more like advertising videos rather than available product, and it was flir, not ir in question.
No, they are not from future, merely from past , but surely prices are quite high today. Products are available at market now.Today it is reality.
They are coming to mass market, sooner or later.
But tomorrow < $400 ?, prices are quickly dropping. Promo videos are six (6) years old!
HUD, or Head-Up Display are reality in several new cars.[thumbnail]http://www.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011-bmw-5-series-night-vision-654x436.jpg[/thumbnail]
And you need your $300 phone/tablet to use it, but that is zero cost, when you have it already.
And lot of fun work
FLIR uses Thermal Imaging Camera and some available Computer Vision prosedures.
Have you heard of Computer Vision? Google car?
It is quite ready techonology, to try even yourself. And mobile phone can do all maths needed to do augmented reality.
All hardware is ready, just somebody most put all things together. (and make small piece of sofware :lol: )
space shuttle 400,000 lines of code
Boeing 787 Dreamliner 6.5 million lines of software
premium-class car 100 million lines of software code
Modern car runs with software, literally.